Years ago people laughed at me for not having Facebook (and never having had it in the first place). Who's laughing now? Not me, nor any other consumers. But hey, we tried...
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Fight for regulation
The only thing that can stop them from their established position of power and influence is regulation that limits those, with effective checks and prosecution.
Split up their platforms and companies, require transparency and provable decency, require structural or behavioral changes
They have so much money, fines won't do a thing [unless they're excessively high and against their companies]. They have such established prevalence with their platforms, activism of and with evasion won't have much of an impact at scale.
Demonstrating public aversion towards advertisers is also a workable approach that could have an impact [long term].
I'm all for that, BUT
Tech companies tend to push for policies that seem to regulate their strategies, but are really designed to not let anyone else use the loopholes they used for themselves. In that they are trying to weed out competition and become a monopoly. So if there are regulations, they need to be thought through. And definitely not be Big Tech backed.
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You start by 3D printing a gun.
organize with others.
Learn what it is that makes a cybertruck rust...
Existing?
Good. Then 'existing' it is, that will make them vanish eventually...
The rain?
Commencing rain dance!
all individual can do is find other individuals and try to do something together
Self host
Yes totally, but I still kind of expected tries.